News Room
Welcome to CTSI's News Room. Here, you can browse through our latest consumer protection and trading standards news reports (below), or check out our archive of news articles from previous years.
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Rising trends in ts work: e-cigarettes and illicit tobacco
Posted: 13/10/14
The 2013 -14 TSI Tobacco Control Survey is now out and shows changing trends in trading standards activities in this area.
TSI backs call for product safety reform to save lives
Posted: 29/09/14
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) backs the call by the coroner in the latest BEKO fridge fire death case to reform the system around product safety standards.
TSI attends political party conferences
Posted: 26/09/14
TSI are attending all three of the main political party conferences and hosting fringe events in partnership with Which? at the Labour and Conservative conferences.
TSI welcomes new chairman
Posted: 25/09/14
TSI’s new chairman Mark McGinty took over the chains of office from John Peerless at the TSI annual general meeting in Duxford’s Imperial War Museum on 25 September.
Elliott Review welcome step in fight against food crime, says TSI
Posted: 04/09/14
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) welcomes the Government's acceptance of the Elliott review recommendations published today (4 Sept), but cautions against further cuts to trading standards who will be the eyes and ears of the new food crime unit.